We are somewhat new to Hadoop and are looking to run some experiments with HDFS, Pig, and HBase.
With that in mind, I have a few questions:
What is the easiest (preferably free) Hadoop distro to get started with?  Cloudera?
What host OS distro/release is recommended?
What is the easiest environment to get started with?  Amazon EC2?  Is there anyone offering virtual/hosted prebuilt Hadoop instances?
Where would we find some "big data" files that people have used for testing purposes?
Feel free to RTFM me to the right place ;-)
Thanks, john

I aslo looking for a good and easy learn doc.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:29 PM, John Lilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

>  We are somewhat new to Hadoop and are looking to run some experiments
> with HDFS, Pig, and HBase.  ****
>
> With that in mind, I have a few questions:****
>
> What is the easiest (preferably free) Hadoop distro to get started with?
> Cloudera?****
>
> What host OS distro/release is recommended?****
>
> What is the easiest environment to get started with?  Amazon EC2?  Is
> there anyone offering virtual/hosted prebuilt Hadoop instances?****
>
> Where would we find some “big data” files that people have used for
> testing purposes?****
>
> Feel free to RTFM me to the right place ;-)****
>
> Thanks, john****
>
> ** **
>